I just stumbled on this site looking for Cannings. It makes me weep thinking what has gone. My father and grandfather were at the GEC, as a boy I remember their open days, massive machines turning armatures, displays. Cricket at the Magnet club. I once worked at Longbridge, how sad now. Red Robbo in Cofton Park, "brothers..."
I worked at Webster and Horsfalls/Latch & Batchelor in Haymills, the oldest privately owned company in Brum, barely surviving now. All so sad
Dave